When I boot up off of the OS X CD to start the install it asks for "root device"

My options are sd%d fd%d en%d or tr%d

What do these mean? If I use en%d or tr%d it continues to load os X, forever. It never gets past loading. If I use any of the others it won't go anywhere..just says that I am missing a number or something. Anyone have any ideas? Let me know ASAP. Thanks.

right, here's a complete guess ;-)

sd is your fixed disk device, fd is probably a floppy device, td is, I guess, a tape/cartridge type thing etc.

so you probably want to use the fixed disk as a root device - so type sd. then it needs to know which disk/partition to use - this is where it gets tricky. try sda - this will normally be the first disk device present in your machine, and seems like a good place to start. the only other thing it may want is a partition number. so you may end up with something like sda0, which would be the first partition on the first disk in your system.

hope that helps!



[This message has been edited by ben-fu (edited 09-06-2000).]